Arrangement for making living pictures.



s. KUGHARSKI. ARRANGTEMENT FOR MAKING LIVING PICTURES.

' APPLIOAIION FILED DEOJS, 1911. 1

' Patented July 14, 1914:

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with a variety of other uses *STANI$LAUS KUCHARSKI, OIE ZBERLIN, GERMANY.

ARRANGED IENT FOR MAKING LIVING PICTURES.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented July 14:, 1914.

Application filed December 13, 1911. Serial No. 665,555.

for printing a succession of pictures upon a band. or strip of photographic paper or the like, which band when the pictures are printed photographic:lly thereon may be used for a variety of purposes; for instance, the pictures may be separated and arranged in succession to make up a book which, when the leaves are allowed to fall rapidly in succession, display a so-called f living piston-i. In making up such hooks and in connection of such photographic hands, itis particularly desirable that the band of photographic paper or the like shall be printed within 'a very short timeaftcr the photograph has been taken.

One of the objects of the present invention is to provide apparatus which will perniit of ru'inting pictures as aforesaid in the shortest possible space of time. I

Another object of the invention is to provide apparatus which will permit of. printing from a negative while it is in a wet condition.

To these ends the invention consists in the. novel combination hereinafter described and claimed. 40 y The accompanying drawings illustrate a preferred embodiment of my invention, in which Figure 1 is a diagrainma-tit: front elevation. Figs. 2, 3 and 4 show parts of the negative lihu feeding means on a larger scale. Fig. 5 is a side view of the mechanism for imparting an intermittent movement to the negative film and Fig. (3 is a face view thereof. Fig. 7 is a view for iinpartil g intermittent movement to the positive photographic baud.

; Referring to the drawings, suitable supporting means are provided, such as a table whaving supporting legs a, a. Suitably supported at one end of the table a there is provided the usual projection printing, lair tern 0, which may be of anysuitable type, and the construction of which is well understood by those skilled in, the art.

Suitable means are provided for feeding the negativefilni band in front of the face of the projectinglantern, in order thatthe negative images on said negative band may be projected onto the band of photographic paper or the like upon which the succession of pictures is to be printed. Preferably these negative til 111 band feeding means are constructed and arranged in such manner that the negative film band can be fed through the apparatus in the wet state which is incidental to the developing or other process which it undergoes. In the illustrative embodiment shown in the drawings, brackets r1, extendfroni the top of the lantern a which brackets o are connected together at theinupper ends by a crossbar a. The tops of these brackets form bearings for a horizontal feed siaft at upon. which is mounted the feed roller 7), which is preferably removable and supports the wet negative film 0. On reference to Fig. 2 which shows these parts of the negative-film feeding means drawn to a larger scale, it will be seen that the wet negative (2 is Wound spirally upon the roller Z) so that no one convolution of the film comes in contact with another convolution, and in this way any danger of one part of the film sticking to another part is entirely avoided,'the roller 7) being of such dimensions that the Whole length of the film can be wound thereon in this manner.

Having regard to the fact that the film is arranged spirally upon the feed roller 6, means are provided to displacethe roller laterally during its movement of rotation,

whereby the lllltl will al 'ays be fed off the roller Z) in a path substantially in aliueuient with the face of the lantern 0 in the illustrative embodiment shown in the drawings, these means comprise a worm 7c mounted on the shaft a and cooperating with a finger I mounted on the crossbar a," and which ongages with said worn]. so that on rotation of. said shaft o the emotion of he Zinger with the worm will cause said shaft. together with the feed roller L, to be displaced latorally. -Means are provided to impart tension to the film band during the feeding movement, as for example a roller fitted to the end of said shaft (2.. around which is Wound a flexible connection 2" from which ber of teeth m which is suspended a weight i so that the weight.

is wound up as the film is unwound. The lihu band 0 as it passes off the feed roller 6 moves over the face of the window d forming. part of the projecting device a", and thence passes over and is engaged by a feed wheel in (see Fig. provided with a numare adapted to engage in perforations formed along both of the lateral edges of the film band in well known manner. This feed wheel in is supported in a bearing m mounted on the table a (Fig. l), and this bearing also supports a guide roller n, theperiphery of Which is concave as shown in Fig. 4-,, and which is so disposed relative to the feed wheel m as to prevent the film 0 leaving the latter, in a manner which will be well understood.

Suitable means'are provided to receive the film after it has been passed in front of the projectino device, and in the embodiment herein (TGSCIllJGtL, have shown a tank 0 which may contain water or other suitable fluid and which supported from the mulcrsnrface of the table a by means of brackets 0 the wet negative band, after it has passed over the roller n, passes through the slot (1? in the table a and drops into the tank 0. Mounted on the table (L is a bracket o which supports the projecting lenseso", which lenses may be adjustable as is usual with the lenses of projecting appa 'atus.

Suitable means are arranged in conjunction with the projecting means described above, to feed a band of material g having a sensitized surface in position to receive images projected by said projecting means,

so as inform a positive succession of photo graphs of the images upon the film band c. in the preferred embodiment herein described these means con'lprise brackets 0 projecting from the upper surface of the table 1/, and adapted to support a roller f'carrying a band of PlIOlIOgIHIJlIlC paper or other material having a sensitized surface. This band. of paper'or thelike is passed througha slot (1. in the table a, and engages with a feed wheel ..=uspem led from the lower face of said table. Rotation of the feed Wheel f 'auses the band to pass from the roller f over the wheel f said band being guided in this movement by means of a guiding de-' vice shown diagramnilatically in Fig. 1 and which will be more )zi'i'ticl|liiily herein after described with reference to Figs. 5, (3 and T. The feed wheel f is formed with projecting teeth which are adapted to take into perforations formed in both the lateral edges of the band so as to feed said hand f/ poi-in vcly off the roller 7, and suitable means are provided for preventing the band from .--;lippiugoutof engagement with the feed wheel 7", these means as herein shown consisting of a roller f rocking on a pivot f and pressed against the feed wheel f by negative film band c,

means of a spring pressed lever The paper after it leaves the feed wueel f falls into a receptacle 7, from which it is removed for the subsequent operations incidental to the production of a complete photographic band.

As shown, in Figs. 8 and 9 the feed wheel 'sha ft m is supported in a pair of brackets m and'at the end opposite to that which carries the worm m there is arranged a pulley m over which runs a belt m which passes over another pulley m mounted on a shaft m supported from the undersurface of the table a and carrying at its other end a disk 8 which is provided with a pin 8 This disk is adapted to impart intermittent movement to aslotted wheel 8 on the shaft 8 and through bevel pinions m and 777/ to the feed wheel f. The shaft m is driven continuously and it will be understood that the negative film c and the positive band 9 will be intermittently operated to accord With the position of. the shutter 0 carried by the shaft 112:. When the shutter is obscuring the projecting lens 0" the said film 0 and band 9 will be fed, but when the lens 0 is exposed said film and band will be stationary. Upon movement being imparted to the feed wheel min any suitable manner, motion will be transmitted to the feed roller 1) of the negative film band feeding means through the and also throughthe transmission described. above to the feed wheel f of the positive band, and through the positive consequence of which a synchronous relation is maintained during the operation of the apparatus between the feed of the negative band 0 and the, positive band 9.

\Vhile I have described my invention with reference to a particular and preferred embodiment thereof, I wish it to be understood that a number of variations n'iight be made in the construction or arrangement without departing-from the scope of my claims.

1. Apparatus for printing a succession of pictures comprising a projecting device, means for supporting and feeding a band of wet film,.said means consisting of a roller on which the film is wound in such a. manner that one portion of'its surface will not contact with another portion thereof, means for feeding said film otl said roller in a path sul'istantially in alinement with the face of said projecting device, and in :ans feed a strip of positiv, material in po 1.1011 to reband itself to the roller f, as aceive the images projected by said projecting device.

2. Apparatus for printing a succession of pictures comprising a projecting device, means adapted to support and feed a band of wet film, said means consisting of an axially movable roller on which the film is wound in, such a manner that one portion of its surface will not contact with another portion thereof, and means for moving laterally said film supporting member to feed said film in determined relationto said projecting device, in combination with means to feed a strip of positive material in position to receive the images projected by said projecting device.

3, An apparatus for printing a succession of pictures comprising in combination an axially movable roller, means for moving said roller axially to feed a band of negative film in determined relation to a projecting device, feeding means for said negative film, means for feeding aband of positive material in position to receive the images projected by said projecting device, and means for driving both of said driving meansin synchronism.

4. An apparatus for printing a succession of pictures, comprising the combination of an axially movable roller, a. screwed. shaft rigidly connected thereto, a finger engaging with the threads on said shaft, and means for driving said shaft to move said roller axially. I

5. An apparatus of the kind described comprising a projecting device, a roller dimensioned to receive a determined length of film wound spirallv thereon, and means adapted to feed a film oil said roller in a de termined path relative to said projecting device.

In testimony whereof I aifix my signature in presence of two witnesses.

STANISLAUS KUCHARSKI.

\Vitnesses HUGH GRAMATFKI, ELSA HAUPT. 

